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Whether commercial retail space or home sweet home, the space you use for work or play has hit a premium price even in today's tough real estate market. The price of most new homes has climbed to more than $100 per square foot, so making the most efficient use of the space you have is a must. Even companies have changed in the last few years, allowing or even requiring employees to take their office computers home as they’ve downsized the square footage needed for office space by eliminating those old bulky computers and terminals and furnishing their employees with space-saving laptop computers.
At home, we no longer have the necessity for full-sized desks to hold all the hardware inherent with desktop computers and peripherals and this allows us to forego a separate room or space to house it all. Rather, we can select a small dual-purpose location, a corner of a room easily hidden with a folding screen, or use a near-invisible, sleek piece of furniture topped with glass. You can even work from your favorite chair, sending your print jobs to a wireless printer. The need for multiple devices for printing, scanning, and file storage has been resolved with the creation of multi-function, all-in-one devices and flash drives the size of your thumb. Keyboard drawers no longer need to hold actual keyboards, and I use that space to tuck my paperwork, keeping the surface clear of clutter.
Unless you have the need to meet with clients in a secluded room to properly conduct your business, wireless internet hubs and wireless telephones no longer keep us tethered to a stationary base of operation. I plan to reclaim the room that served as our home office and free up that precious square footage. In its place will be a dedicated home gym which will give us plenty of space to include a game system, dance pads, and surround sound for my favorite form of exercise, dancing. I’m already paying for the square footage in my mortgage, so it saves me the money I might have spent on a gym membership, it doesn’t cost me any gas money to drive to a gym, and I’m more likely to do workouts in the privacy of my own home to my own music, played as loud as I like it. There’s nothing like home sweet home.
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